Improvement in handle-fastenings for traveling-bags



M. SCHWERIN.

Handle-Fastening for Traveling-Bags.

Patented May28 mtmm;

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MORRIS SGHWERIN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,273, dated May 28, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Device for Fastening the Handles of Satchels, Trunks, &c., invented by MORRIS SOHW'ERIN, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey.

Figure l is a detail longitudinal section of my improved fastener, showing it as attached to a handle. Fig. 2 is a detail cross-section of the same'taken through the line w 01:, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is the same view as Fig. 2, but showing a modification of construction.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to improve the construction of my improved handle-fasttener for which Letters Patent N 0. 116,634 were granted me July 4., 1871, so as to make it simpler in construction, less expensive in manufacture, and more conveniently applied; and it consists in the construction and combination of the various parts of the device, as hereinafter more fully described.

A represents the frame of a satchel, the body of a trunk, or any other article to which the handle ism be attached, and B represents the handle, about the construction of which parts there is nothing new. 0 is a hollow cylinder, open at one end to receive the handle B. The cylinder 0 has a flange or bead, 0, formed around each end, as shown in Fig. 1, to keep the said cylinder from slipping out of the band D. The band D is passed around the cylinder 0, and its ends are passed through the plate E and are bent outward so as to be between the said plate E and the frame or.

body A, to which the handle is to be attached. The plate E is then riveted or otherwise secured to the frame or body A. If desired, the ends of the band D may be passed through both the plate E and the body or frame A, and

then bent down, as shown in Fig. 3. In the side of the band D, at such a distance above the plate E as to allow the screw wire F to be inserted, is formed a hole, d, as shown inFig. 2. The end of the handleB is inserted in the cylinder 0, and a wire screw, F, is inserted through the hole d, through holes 0 in the sides of the cylinders G, andthrough the end of the handles B, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. The wire screw should be of such a length as to pass through both sides of the cylinder G to firmly hold the end of the handle. The middle part of the band D may be made as shown in Figs.l and 2, to allow the ends of the wire screw F to move around freely should they project a little beyond the outer surface of the cylinder 0;

or, if desired, the band D may be slotted, as shown in Fig. 3, to allow the screw F to be inserted and the handle to have the necessary play. The'construction first described is preferred, as wholly concealing the ends of the screw F, and preventing the possibility of said screw working out.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- The combination of the hollow cylinder (3, open at one end, and beaded or flanged at both ends, the beaded or corrugated band D, and the plate E with each other, substantially in the manner herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 15th day of December,

MORRIS SOHWERIN.

Witnesses JAMES '1. GRAHAM, T. B. MOSHER. 

